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La Machine de l'amour — The Machina of Love

The Machina twists and turns and it sees objects that smile and ones that frown and they look kind of ugly the more they look nice and they would step and their skirts would shimmer and the collar of their shirts are all too real. Poor children. Do they know. How La Machine de l'amour would feed them milk and cradle them until they love themselves. One of them is a boy of honey and silk & he would smile like a terrified lamb but stand, in a standoff nevertheless he says "La Machine de l'amour? why would you choose my hooves to follow in these steep mountains? Your eyes are too dim and your lips are shut and your cheeks terrify me, La Machine de l'amour what do you want from me?" One of them is a girl in a poor dress, with a wild tiger and she would gaze so sharp and all too clear. She switches between the smirk and the glitter and she is greater than she was told she could ever be, so she hates: "La Machine de l'amour run, run away, or my cat would bite your metal feet. Run run run and leave me be, I shall survive." One could have been at peace and could've loved but he can't. He has to weigh the weight of the heavens and his arms are hairy and his teeth are cracked, it shows on the teeth at first but his heart... his heart needs saving. One of them thinks they can run from the machina, but they would see her over and over in the eyes of the lovers and escape and go away again. His eyes are tearing and the machine finds it oh so sad... "Mother you are not real, you are a facade, and your arms, your hands they speak all the terrible things you did, they are stained in red, they are in plastic and stained in red. What did you do to the heart?" ... My eyes are dim and my lips are shut and my cheeks they can barely smile. My legs are metal, my arms are wrapped in plastic stained... I don't cry like you, you Your totters tread the mountains like a water stream and you, I know you will survive, and child, take care of your teeth. I will give you back your heart when you ask for it. I promise you I will give it. I promise you I cry... I cry... I am..